[3] Kansas City is often referred to as the Barbecue Capital of the World – an assertion its citizens take very seriously. Doug Worgul [4]’s new novel, Thin Blue Smoke, offers a fictionalized take on our town’s famous barbecue scene.
[6] Voyeurism is an acceptable trait in a filmmaker. But sadism? In his new book, The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, celebrated critic David Thomson shows how Alfred Hitchcock damaged his audiences even more than his actresses.
[8] No other sport has a history quite like American stock car racing. In his new book, Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay and Big Bill France, Daniel S. Pierce traces the rise of NASCAR from its roots in showdowns between Southern bootleggers to a billion-dollar brand with legions of fans.
[10] Charismatic, brave and ruthless, the first century B.C. Persian king Mithradates was a master of warfare and toxicology who nearly brought the Roman Empire down. Adrienne Mayor’s The Poison King is a stunning portrait of the greatest ruler time forgot. Mayor will discuss her book this Thursday, July 22 [11], at the Central Library.
[13] With more than 400 million users, Facebook is changing the way the world communicates. David Kirkpatrick’s new book, The Facebook Effect [14], gives a behind-the-scenes look at the world's biggest social network.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/worguls-world-barbecue
[4] http://www.dougworgul.com
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10359#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/moment-hitchcock
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/moment-hitchcock#comments
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/case-nascar
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/case-nascar#comments
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-poison-king
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/event/adrienne-mayor-poison-king
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10194#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-facebook-effect
[14] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:Facebook+Effect
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-facebook-effect#comments
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=14
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=7
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=8
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=9
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=10
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=11
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=12
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=13
